Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello my chickens, how are you all? As I am writing this episode I am watching the

snow fall out the window. It's very peaceful outside, is not so peaceful in my brain.

At least it was not this morning.

I woke up, my brain was running a million miles a minute

into the future.

I know you can all relate. So my brain loves to go on what I call the

what if parade. It's like I'm watching a parade but it's a parade of horribles.

So every single float is just a what if of every possible

catastrophe that could arise. Right? Here's everyone you love dying. Here's your business

collapsing. Here's your cat running away and getting run over.

Here you're losing a limb. Here's global apocalypse. Break down of the supply chain and you don't even know how to sew.

So then what are you going to do?

Right, my brain is so creative when it wants to be about the bad things and

probably yours is too. So the first thing to know is that this is just what brains

do. We tend to freak out and think that either our brain is telling us the truth and we need to believe

it all or that our brain is like malfunctioning and we have a serious problem something

has gone really wrong. But neither of those are true.

I'm someone who has dedicated myself to this practice of managing my mind and I

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